FAQ

Picking - General

Find the sport, event, bet type and outcome you want to place a pick against.

Select the amount you want to sell your pick for.

Confirm that’s the pick you want to place.

That’s all! Your pick will show up in your profile. Others will be able to see the game you’ve placed the pick against. Other users won’t be able to see the details of your pick (bet type or the team) unless they’ve purchased it.

Once the event is complete, we’ll automatically define it as a win, loss or return. The profitability of the pick will then also be added to your profile.

Odds are a numerical expression used in gambling to reflect of the ratio of payoff vs. the stake. The odds are generally reflective of the bookmakers view of the likelihood of an outcome happening. Odds can be expressed in several ways. On OddsCrowd, we express them in either Decimal or American formats. To read more on Odds and how the different formats, read our article Odds Explained
https://www.oddscrowd.com/insight/sports-betting-odds-explained.

You can’t change or cancel picks on OddsCrowd once they’ve been placed. This is in an effort to replicate how fixed sports bets work. If we did allow picks to be cancelled, then people who’ve placed picks that have moved unfavourably in odds or spread could cancel their pick and place the pick again at the better odds. This would make the important betting skill of placing bets at odds at value redundant.

Buying and Selling Picks

You need to have an available balance in your OddsCrowd account. Then, once you’ve found a pick you want to buy from a user’s profile, click ‘Buy’. Once you’ve successfully bought the pick, you will be sent an email with the details. You will also be able to find it by visiting your profile, and looking under the ‘purchased picks’ tab. If you have any issues with receiving the pick, please contact us at
[email protected].

Login to your OddsCrowd account and navigate to your profile. Under the section ‘Picks’, click on ‘Purchased’. This will detail all of the upcoming and previous picks you’ve purchased from other users on the site.

Every time you purchase a pick on the site, we send you an email with the details of that pick.

Every time you enter a pick, you enter the price you’d like to sell it for. This determines the price users will see if they want to buy your picks. Your picks will be published on your profile, and can be found by users by either you appearing on top leader boards or in competition rankings. You can also promote your profile and picks to your social media or emailing it to your friends. The details of your pick like bet type and team are not revealed to other users unless they have purchased it.

The Leaderboard page is the best place to start. The Leaderboard ranks the top performing sports bettors from across the OddsCrowd community. If you’re looking to place a pick on a specific sport, say Ice Hockey, then you should probably filter the board for the best performers in Ice Hockey specifically. You might also want to play around with the time filter to either find a profile that has been performing well consistently over a longer period, or, you might want to look at a shorter period of time so you can see profiles running hot.

Looking at a specific profile is also a great way of understanding the type of bettor they are. Key things to look at:

Performance over time graph - See if they’re someone who has built up their winnings over time, or via a few big wins.

Profitability – The amount you would have won if you placed $100 on every pick they’ve placed.

ROI – the % return on investment. A 10% ROI means if you’d placed $100 on every pick they’ve placed, you would’ve made $10.

Rankings by Sport - You can see how they rank across the different sports. Some bettors do specialise in specific sports.

Strike Rate (the % of time their picks win) – This gives you a view of how often their picks result in a win.

Average Odds – This provides you with the average odds of the picks they make. You’ll be able to get an idea of whether they’re more regularly a favourite bettor or not.

Competitions

To enter a competition, you need to visit the competitions page. Here you can browse through the upcoming or active competitions.

Each competition has it’s own set of rules, so make sure you read them closely to understand things like what picks will qualify for your ranking in the competition, prizes and start and complete dates.

Once you’ve found the competition you’re interested in, simply enter via the Enter Competition button. After you’ve successfully entered, you’ll need to place picks against the qualifying sports and events. Any picks you place that are relevant to the competition will automatically tie back to your account’s profitability. Also, if you’ve already entered qualifying picks prior to entering the competition, they will automatically apply to your competition entry.

For every pick you place, we put a hypothetical $100 bet on it. We use the same technology as the bookmakers, so we provide you with real time up to date odds. The hypothetical bet is placed a fixed odds bet at the odds displayed at the time you place your bet. Once the event is complete, your pick will then be determined a win, loss or return, and your account will be updated with the profitability of your account accordingly. Any winning bet will exclude the $100 stake of the hypothetical bet. As well as profitability, we will automatically calculate all of the other subsequent metrics.